Nader Touts `Civic Power'

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August 6, 2001

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Appearing at his first major rally since last year's presidential campaign, Ralph Nader urged thousands of supporters Saturday night to keep going and use "civic power" to make themselves heard. "If millions of people think that they can't count and don't matter and can't change things and can't get their calls returned, that is in and of itself the biggest source of the power of the repressors and the power brokers," he said. Saying his Green Party campaign had created a "rumble" felt by the political establishment, Nader railed against everything from gas prices to the local news at the $10-a-head "People Have the Power" rally.